Our friend Cherie Carswell (who happens to be a designer over at Westbeach) emailed us last week saying that she was going to this “crazy tranny show” that we had to check out. And since we’re not the type to back down from anything weird and unusual we said SHIT YES! We had our interns do a little research and found out that it was non other the world renown transvestite Amada Lepore wich according to Soap box prophet (wich we religiously acknowledge) is “the tranny to top all trannies” (ok?) and she would be playing at some bar called the Biltmore. Playing…we don’t know what but it sounded freaky and crazy and dammit we wanted in. Instantly we dropped the mounds of paper work, html-codeing and all sorts of other technical internet workings that we do here at gnarcore.com and called gnarcoraspondent and cultural documenter DAVID ROULEAU who happen to already be in Vancouver. View the Gallery to see how his night went.

Be there before 10 and we’ll be real nice to you.

chhyea! 

Words: Gerhard Gross Images: David Rouleau

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Vestel Watches, now here’s a company that just may have a clue how to make an industry party go off. All you really have to do is Book a rad band.  Sure i’ve been known to dance my ass off to a good Dj here and there but nothing hits home like some good old fasioin rockn ‘n’ roll. I’m serious. East Vancouver’s Pride Tiger is a band would be right at home on my dads record shelf along side Thin Lizzy and Deep Purple but yet would be leaning up against my Priestess and Black Mountain Cd’s.  Known to skate here and there when there wasted, Pride Tiger’s like the stoner rock for our generation and they’re fucking kicking some serious ass. 

check see. 

Just when you thought Fridays in Whistler couldn’t get any cooler. Long time whistler local Jeff Paterson (no, not the photog, a different one) had the smarts to bring in local icon Wes Makepeace to fuel the night at the Fitz pub in the upper village. Wes shows no mercy as he belts and shouts his ever popular whiskey ramblings and horse musical renditions of everything from Warren Zevon to Bob Dylan. If your lucky he’ll play the room-filling sing-along “War is hell” which was made popular as the credits track to the mind blowingly insane shred flick POP by Absinthe Film’s. Or my favorite “Winter hills of the shred dogs” which also found its way on to a shred sound track as Sean Johnson wisely chose it to end the highly popular trick flick PROMO COPY, damn that one almost wore out my dvd player. As of late Wes has been leaking some gems from his soon to be released album, although don’t ask him about it though cause he doesn’t know when its coming out either.

put your hand up if you wanna party

The Fitz Pub which use to be BBK’s is located up by the Chateau whistler so there’ always a bunch of uptight tourists to piss off as you stumble out of the tiny pub for a smoke and a joke. The night has become so popular that it almost imploded on it self two weeks ago when the room got so packed you couldn’t even move. The next thing you know you’d been pushed around so much that you were standing next to Wes bumping his whiskey and kicking the cardboard box that his percussionist Mark Bannock uses as a make shift base drum. I’m serious, the box gets duct taped to the floor and fixed with a kick pedal. The only problem with the box is… well, its a cardboard box and i’ll be interested to see how long it lasts as it serves as a drip catcher for the barrage of drinks that gets relayed between the two as they put the all-you-can-drink-for-the-band rule to the test.

Why are drummers always so agro? “The box” and the angriest photo you’ll ever see of Mark bannock

Wes Makepeace and Mark Bannock play every Friday night at the Fitz Pub in Whitsler at around 9 or 10pm. See you there…if you can get in.